The authorities continue to violate the rights of Bedoon -stateless citizens- and arbitrarily arrest four human rights defenders

  • Kuwait
  • 31/08/2012

Authorities in Kuwait continue their series of violations against the Bedoon community -stateless citizens- which include deprive them of their basic civil and human

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An open letter to Mr. Barak Obama, the President of the United States of America from the Family of Bahraini prominent Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab

  • Bahrain
  • 25/08/2012

An open letter to Mr. Barak Obama, the President of the United States of America from the Family of Bahraini prominent Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab President of

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Bahrain emboldened by international silence, sentences Nabeel Rajab to 3 years imprisonment

  • Bahrain
  • 16/08/2012

The BCHR and GCHR condemn in the strongest terms the sentence passed today against the detained human rights defender Nabeel Rajab by the Bahraini government on charges

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An open letter from the family of Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab / To the governments of the USA, the UK and all governments who have influence on Bahrain And to the UN and all Regional and International Human Rights Organisations

  • Bahrain
  • 11/08/2012

  My name is Sumaya Rajab, the wife of the prominent Bahraini human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, who is currently detained in Bahrain. I write this letter in my

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Syria- Human rights defender Mazen Darwish at risk of facing a secret military tribunal

  • Syria
  • 6/08/2012

Beirut, 06 August 2012- The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received information that prominent human rights defender Mazen Darwish is at risk of being brought

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Calls for the immediate release of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab

  • Bahrain
  • 4/08/2012

Beirut, 04 August 2012- The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), call on the authorities in Bahrain to immediately release

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Arrest and Ill-treatment of Human Rights Defender Zainab Al-Khawaja

  • Bahrain
  • 3/08/2012

  Beirut, 03 August 2012- Human rights activist Zainab Al-Khawaja was yet again arrested last night when she was protesting alone in Al Qadam roundabout. Zainab

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Syria-Fears for life of human rights activist Fatima Saad following her torture in detention

  • Syria
  • 1/08/2012

Beirut, 01 August 2012- The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received information that the life of detained human rights activists Fatima Saad is in danger after

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Human rights defender Dr Ahmed Yousef Al-Zaabi sentenced to twelve months in prison

  • UAE
  • 24/07/2012

Beirut, 24 July 2012- The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received information that human rights defender Dr. Ahmed Yousef Al-Zaabi was sentenced to twelve

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